Our next AGM will be Tuesday 10th September 2024 7–9pm at the HIVE cafe. We are looking for resident volunteers to put themselves forwards to help run the committee.
To get in touch, please email us at contact@prera.org.uk or use our online form.
2023-2024 Committee
Following the residents’ vote at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in September 2023, the current PRERA committee are:
- Kush (Co-Chair)
- Angela (Co-Chair)
- Alicia (Vice-Chair)
- Julia (Treasurer)
- Katie (Secretary)
- Melissa (Area Board Representative)
- Hugh
- Eduardo
- David
- Rena
How does the committee work
The residents association has a committee that is elected from its members annually. PRERA needs a minimum of 5, maximum of 15 household to form the committee (the committee can only be made up of 1 person per household). You don’t have to have any experience, and the council can sometimes offer training.
You can nominate yourself, or vote in committee members at the upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM) that will take place on Tuesday 10th September 2024 7–9pm at the HIVE Cafe.
The committee consists of the following roles…
Committee Chair
- Guides the association to achieve its objectives
- Chairs meetings and is the spokesperson for the association
- Prepares agendas with other committee members
- Ensures that the other committee members carry out their allotted tasks
- Informs committee members and association members of meetings with councillors, council and Lambeth Living staff and other residents’ associations.
Committee Vice Chair (optional)
- Shares the workload with the Chair, deputises in their absence.
Committee Secretary
- Takes minutes of meetings and circulates afterwards
- Arranges the room for meetings
- Informs all members of the time, date and place of meetings
- Writes and receives all correspondence, raises issues during meetings
- Keeps a membership list (name and email)
- Produces a newsletter, with the help of other committee members
Committee Treasurer
- Opens a bank account, sharing responsibility for signing cheques with at least one other committee member.
- Deals with money in and out of bank account; keeps receipts; uses an account book.
- Deals with day to day expend-iture through a petty cash book.
- Keeps committee and members informed of the Associations’ financial situation.
- Draws up accounts yearly for the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
Committee Members
- Give support to the executive committee members, as agreed at committee meetings.
- Accepts responsibility for some of the duties outlined above, perform their tasks and report back to the committee as and when required.
General Membership
The Residents Association is also made up of general members (free, no commitment). It’s open to everyone who lives on the Palace Road Estate – all Lambeth tenants, private tenants, leaseholders, and freeholders over the age of 16. PRERA needs a minimum of 5% of Palace Road Estate residents to become members to officially registered as an RA with Lambeth Council (meaning 16 separate households).
